School: An Currach Glas, Tulach an Iarainn (roll number 12382)
- Location:
- Curraglass, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Bríd, Bean Uí Bhriain
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0380, Page 280
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- "As long as the jug goes to the well it gets broken in the end."
"It is not on a stormy day you should be thatching your house."
"The younger the chicken the sweeter the picking."
"The nearest to the altar the latest to mass."
"The life of an old shoe is to polish it"
"His bark is worse than his bite."
"What is bred in the bones comes out in the meat."
"An apple a day keeps the doctor away."
"Blood is thicker than water."
"Every dog is stiff at his own door and every cock crows on his own dung hill."
"Fara way cows wear long horns."
"It's a long lane has no turning."
"The nearer to the rock the sweet the grass."
"When wine is in with is out."
"Talk is cheap but it takes money to buy bread."
"Do not ever buy a pig in a bag."
"Talk is cheap you can get a ballad for a halfpenny."
"Money makes the mare go."(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Gallagher
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Curraglass, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mrs Mary Gallagher
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 41
- Address
- Curraglass, Co. Cork
